It's absolutely summer in Australia. 35C heat is fairly standard, so all those songs about a "white Christmas" are especially on the nose this year. I've seen precisely one in my time, and that was definitely an anomaly.

The weather's so hot it melts the tar on the road, which sticks to your shoes.

And since I'm Popecat, I decree:

Mention three of your favourite things, without context.

Mine are DnD, jokes that are funny enough to make me laugh out loud, and my family, both nuclear and extended.

autemome will see to it that it becomes very RELATED.Original version:

autemome wrote: DID YOU KNOW THAT SHARK WEEK DRIFTS OUT OF SYNC WITH THE SUN BECAUSE OF OBLIQUITY OF THE MOON? IT WAS EVEN MORE EXTREME DURING THE BRONZE AGE. DID YOU KNOW THAT TOYOTA TRUCK MONTH MIGHT NOT HAPPEN THIS YEAR BECAUSE OF TIME ZONE LEGISLATION IN RUSSIA? THERE'S A PROPOSAL TO FIX IT, BUT IT IS STALLED IN CONGRESS. DID YOU KNOW THAT DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME DRIFTS OUT OF SYNC WITH THE SUN BECAUSE OF NUTATION OF THE PRIME MERIDIAN? THERE'S A PROPOSAL TO FIX IT, BUT IT MIGHT BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL. DID YOU KNOW THAT DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME DRIFTS OUT OF SYNC WITH THE ZODIAC BECAUSE OF AN ARBITRARY DECISION BY ISAAC NEWTON? THERE'S A PROPOSAL TO FIX IT, BUT IT ACTUALLY MAKES THINGS WORSE. DID YOU KNOW THAT SHARK WEEK DRIFTS OUT OF SYNC WITH THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR BECAUSE OF TIME ZONE LEGISLATION IN RUSSIA? IT WAS EVEN MORE EXTREME DURING THE ICE AGE. DID YOU KNOW THAT THE LATEST SUNSET DRIFTS OUT OF SYNC WITH THE LUNAR CALENDAR BECAUSE OF AN ARBITRARY DECISION BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN? SCIENTISTS ARE REALLY WORRIED. DID YOU KNOW THAT DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME DRIFTS OUT OF SYNC WITH THE IPHONE CALENDAR BECAUSE OF AN ARBITRARY DECISION BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN? THERE'S A PROPOSAL TO FIX IT, BUT IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.

OTTified version:

autemome wrote: DID YOU KNOW THAT BALDO BAG MIP DRIFTS OUT OF SYNC WITH THE ZODIAC BECAUSE OF OTTIFICATION OF THE SKYCIRCLE? IT WAS EVEN MORE MUSTARDY DURING THE FADING. DID YOU KNOW THAT THE FALL EQUIPIX MIGHT HAPPEN TWICE THIS YIP BECAUSE OF OTTIFICATION OF THE POPE? THERE'S A PROPOSAL TO DEMUSTARD IT, BUT IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. DID YOU KNOW THAT THE EARLIEST SUNRISE MIGHT HAPPEN TWICE THIS YIP BECAUSE OF TIMZONE LEGISLATION ON THE MOONBASE? THERE'S A PROPOSAL TO DEMUSTARD IT, BUT IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. DID YOU KNOW THAT THE TIMIVERSARY HAPPENS LATER EVERY YIP BECAUSE OF AN ENDISH DECISION BY THE FORTY? SCIENTISTS ARE REALLY PUNSAWED. DID YOU KNOW THAT FFOXY SCRUMPTIOUS DONUT MIP DRIFTS OUT OF SYNC WITH THE MOON BECAUSE OF EE:EE:EEING OF THE VOLDEFRAME? IT WAS EVEN MORE EPSILONISH DURING THE EMPINKENING. DID YOU KNOW THAT THE WINTER OTTYMPICS MIGHT HAPPEN TWICE THIS YIP BECAUSE OF BLITZING OF THE POPE? IT WAS EVEN MORE STEAMBOTTLISH DURING THE GREAT EXPANSION. DID YOU KNOW THAT LEAP YIP HAPPENS LATER EVERY YIP BECAUSE OF KETCHUPPING OF THE JAVASCRIPT? IT WAS EVEN MORE BEANISH DURING THE GREAT EXPANSION.

!I knew it.Sooner or later someone would implement it.I even considered doing it but didn't.I chose to teach another device from FFS to play sounds instead. (Not so successful as the previous one.)I didn't check the otherthread to see if someone did it.

There's a lot of unredundancy now.At about 20171217.21:00 UTC, shortly after you checked, or about 4 nopix ago as of this post, @AASG added a whole bunch of ketchup. I'm not quite sure why it's better to retro-edit a placeholder rather than making a second post, but there it is. (Dragons can be mysterious!)

Because, had I not done that, it would still be redundant past its expiry date, wouldn't it?

lmjb1964 wrote:↫Glad you pointed to the ketchup in Lu's post, mrob. Silly dragon, hiding his ketchup in the past.

Of course! How else is one supposed to hoard ketchup?

I remember there being an initiative to get an OTTer a non-sky-circle containing things related to the previous newpage… what happened with that?

For decree: my dogs, y'allM and—oh, look at Tim. See y'all soon!

Gingercat wrote:Yeah, my players just decided to sit back and watch the Nukewisp frenzy itself to Annihilation-level fire energy, THEN they killed it.Thus ended that campaign.

template love_end: they get married and live happily ever after[]template love_fate: [fate6][]template in_love: they fall in love and [love_fate, love_end]. The end.[]template no_love: [fate7] and [fate6]. The end.[]

The Earth. Scientists discover tiny superpersons who want our women and are not radioactive and cannot be killed by the Air Force, however a priest talks to them of God and they leave. The end.The Earth. Scientists invent tiny superpersons who want our women, take a few and leave. The end.The Earth is attached by tiny martian icky things which understand us only too well and are not radioactive and cannot be killed by the atomic bomb. Finally, however they kill us. The end.The Earth is attached by tiny betelgeusen reptiles which are friendly but misunderstood and are not radioactive and can be killed by the atomic bomb. The end.The Earth. Scientists discover giant icky things which want our women, take a few and leave. The end.The Earth is struck by a giant comet and not destroyed but almost everybody dies. The end.The Earth is attached by tiny martian superpersons who understand us only too well and are radioactive and can be killed by the Air Force. The end.The Earth. Scientists invent tiny icky things which are friendly. The end.The Earth. Scientists discover tiny bugs which are friendly but misunderstood and are not radioactive and cannot be killed by the Navy but they die from catching chicken pox. The end.The Earth is attached by giant martian icky things which are friendly but misunderstood and are radioactive and can be killed by the Coast Guard. The end.The Earth falls into the sun and almost everybody dies. The end.The Earth. Scientists invent giant mechanical devices which understand us only too well and are radioactive and can be killed by a crowd of peasants with torches. The end.The Earth freezes and everybody dies. The end.The Earth. Scientists discover giant icky things which look upon us only as a source of nourishment and are radioactive and can be killed by the atomic bomb. The end.The Earth is attached by tiny martian mechanical devices which are friendly. The end.The Earth. Scientists discover tiny mechanical devices which understand us only too well and are radioactive and can be killed by a crowd of peasants with torches. The end.The Earth. Scientists invent tiny superpersons who are friendly but misunderstood and are radioactive and can be killed by the Air Force. The end.The Earth. Scientists discover tiny mechanical devices which want our women, take a few and leave. The end.The Earth. Scientists discover giant reptiles which understand us only too well and are not radioactive and cannot be killed by a crowd of peasants with torches, however a priest talks to them of God and they turn into disgusting lumps. The end.The Earth is attached by giant betelgeusen reptiles which want our women and are not radioactive and cannot be killed by the Marine Corps so scientists invent a weapon and they turn into disgusting lumps. The end.The Earth is attached by giant betelgeusen bugs which understand us only too well and are not radioactive and cannot be killed by the Marine Corps so scientists invent a weapon and they turn into disgusting lumps. The end.The Earth is attached by tiny martian icky things which understand us only too well and are not radioactive and cannot be killed by the Army. Finally, however they eat us. The end.The Earth. Scientists discover giant icky things which misunderstand us and are not radioactive and cannot be killed by the Air Force but they die from catching chicken pox. The end.The Earth is attached by tiny extragalactic bugs which are friendly. The end.The Earth. Scientists invent giant icky things which look upon us only as a source of nourishment and eat us. The end.The Earth is attached by tiny extragalactic bugs which understand us only too well and are radioactive and can be killed by the Marine Corps. The end.The Earth. Scientists discover giant icky things which look upon us only as a source of nourishment and are radioactive and can be killed by the Coast Guard. The end.

It's been a bit cloudy and windy and not so hot the last couple of days, after being fairly hot the day before. It's a nice change though it doesn't feel like summer. Also it rained a little a few times yesterday but it only added up to 1.5mm which is next to nothing.

ObsessoMom wrote:Dance-along Nutcrackers are not as popular as sing-along Messiahs, for some reason.

And then of course, every performance of John Cage's 4'33" is a play-along, whether you want to participate or not!

Hmm, I feel as the officially designated bard of the OTT I should be the one to create the One True Oratorio... Shouldn't be too hard, set a few choice quotes from Acts of the Clerics to music... complete with the famous "Molpy Grapevine Chorus" of course.

yappobiscuits wrote:Hmm, I feel as the officially designated bard of the OTT I should be the one to create the One True Oratorio... Shouldn't be too hard, set a few choice quotes from Acts of the Clerics to music... complete with the famous "Molpy Grapevine Chorus" of course.

it's just strange, like seeing an old friend you haven't spoken to in years because you drifted away. you see each other and there's an awkward moment where neither of you know what to say. then one of you breaks the ice.

how have you been?

edit, a late addendum:

Spoiler:

i've realized the dear old newpix-o-meter has been down for some time, ever since openbox migrated to a new API version. i've resurrected the old PHP version and put it up on my current webhost.

i realized also a while ago that my image attachments, hosted on dropbox, have likely been holes in this thread's valiant history for a while now. if anyone has information about what's missing, i can perhaps make an effort for historical recovery!

balthasar_s wrote:Oops, I just noticed a typo in this.I wrote "attached" instead o "attacked"...

Well, it probably wouldn't be good for Earth to be attached to most of those things, either. I love Gahan Wilson. I hadn't seen that calculator. Too funny. If I wasn't so lazy still recovering from micromolps, I would ottify it. Steakish job ottifying the Othercomic generator, mrob.

And awesomeful ottification as well, svenman. If I get an Alexa or whatnot, I'm going to teach it to do just that.

GnomeAnne wrote:Hi folks.I'm back, I missed you all.[GroupHug emoji from BlitzGirl's collection that I'm too lazy to find right now]

FTFY: So good to see you again. And Lu had a question up above to which I think you know the answer.

yappobiscuits wrote:

ObsessoMom wrote:Dance-along Nutcrackers are not as popular as sing-along Messiahs, for some reason.

And then of course, every performance of John Cage's 4'33" is a play-along, whether you want to participate or not!

:azule:

yappobiscuits wrote:Hmm, I feel as the officially designated bard of the OTT I should be the one to create the One True Oratorio... Shouldn't be too hard, set a few choice quotes from Acts of the Clerics to music... complete with the famous "Molpy Grapevine Chorus" of course.

And of course, some of the Holy Dialogue from the OTC. There would of course have to be a chorus of "The Sea is Big, The River is Small." I will have my timpani at the ready. *waits for it*

And ChronosDragon! There was no awkwardness, I jumped up and down and gave you a big virtual hug.

Wow, GnomeAnne, dragons, a waterottermolpy, a hamply, a meowlpy, plus all the usual (unusual?) suspects--it's a party!

Of course it's still going! We're waiting for it, and there's more and more it to wait for! And there are still people finding us from the Otherthreads, and there are still new BlitzGirls! (But the first BlitzGirl, BlitzGirl the First, seems to have slipped down those stairs... hope she's ok!)

Febrion wrote:[...footnotes...]

Come join the party ~ this seems to be the party page! (as opposed to the Patti Page, I suppose)

svenman wrote:Looks like some Waiting For It is involved. And some Poglish too.

And some math. I'm not sure the purpose of adding up menu items, but I'm sure it has one. Or two. Or (one plus two) three. Or...Awesomeful ottification svenman! Now to make one that responds to "OK molpy". Maybe BlitzGirl has one like that!

Actually I've been musing about writing an oratorio based on the OTC myself. Redundancy is certainly molpish! Great to see you back Yappo!

4 decree: Massages, flying, music. (Uh... that's three, sir!)

HES wrote:Mine, too. This thread has outlived dropbox sharing policy.

This thread will outlive dropbox.

Jose

Order of the Sillies, Honoris Causam - bestowed by charlie_grumbles on NP 859 * OTTscar winner: Wordsmith - bestowed by yappobiscuts and the OTT on NP 1832 * Ecclesiastical Calendar of the Order of the Holy Contradiction * Please help addams if you can. She needs all of us.

ETA: I knew there was something else I wanted to comment on! Adding up the menu items made me laugh, and also reminded of this sign, which I love:Also, I was like, "Wait, do 1-4 add up to 10?" I should probably have known that, I guess.

balthasar_s wrote:and suddenly people who trusted such things will wake up when it's too late and oh no what now

"This server's ending and it's time to go."

Love the sign, JuneBug!

Jose

Order of the Sillies, Honoris Causam - bestowed by charlie_grumbles on NP 859 * OTTscar winner: Wordsmith - bestowed by yappobiscuts and the OTT on NP 1832 * Ecclesiastical Calendar of the Order of the Holy Contradiction * Please help addams if you can. She needs all of us.

a dragon found himself swept away by this thread and became part of something bigger

making hats, singing songs, coloring ONGs,

once upon a time

but times change, and young dragons' interests range

this dragon found himself in another place,

with other folks

learning about codes, and thinking sand, and not of molps, and castling sand

a place with classes and schedules and professors,

with boring outside words

not molpish, or even epsilonish,

but important for Outside hopes

he worked and learned and read and wrote

he sang and jibed and wrote and spoke

of things not RELATED, but still bespoke

------

this dragon found himself one day

in the summer of 2016

aboard a hollow metal tube,

with engines loud and rigid wings clean

to the swamploads of central florida

for there, he was to lend his mind

to a task so astronomical

an intern, of the fine organization

Administration, National, of both Air and Space

an opportunity not easily passed up!

he stayed there with a friend of he knew

the boy who'd showed him the place

where he could apply for this great chance

to put his skills to work

----

this boy, he'd known, for some time, online

both coders, nimble and able

he grew to know him better then,

that summer of 2016

as he worked and toiled under NASA's flag

on highminded projects no-table

little did the dragon know

during that summer so hot

that when he got to know this boy

he bargained for less than he got

for he fell for this boy,

this intern so handsome,

they became as close as can be,

til the next time summer rolled round again,

the boy moved to seattle to be with me!

Spoiler:

there's more to say, but, another day

the time is once more past 2

it seems in the times of holiday cheer

it's the only thing i can do

this account has been perhaps less than a poem

too freeform, yet structured in lines

i hope nonetheless you enjoyed my account

and will Wait for the rest, in Time

addendum: can anymolp not see the newpix-o-meter? i've switched DNS hosts and my local network seems to have some difficulty resolving clock.chronal.net, but external resolver tools seem to see it okay. i need a second opinion, though!

yappobiscuits wrote:Hmm, I feel as the officially designated bard of the OTT I should be the one to create the One True Oratorio... Shouldn't be too hard, set a few choice quotes from Acts of the Clerics to music... complete with the famous "Molpy Grapevine Chorus" of course.

And of course, some of the Holy Dialogue from the OTC. There would of course have to be a chorus of "The Sea is Big, The River is Small." I will have my timpani at the ready. *waits for it*

Excellent idea! I can imagine how that chorus would go - I'd use the common technique composers use in these types of choral works where the music reflects the words, and have "the river is small" sung pianissimo with gentle minimal accompaniment, and then when it gets to "the sea is big", it blasts out full fortissimo. And of course I'll make sure to write a particularly baobabish timpani part just for you.

ucim wrote:Actually I've been musing about writing an oratorio based on the OTC myself. Redundancy is certainly molpish! Great to see you back Yappo!

Well to be fair I wouldn't hold your breath for my version, I already have so many ottish projects put on hold due to outside projects that the chances of it happening are very slim. So go ahead with yours by all means! Thanks for the welcome... again... but I never really left, I just don't post much these dips. Always lurking though. But eh, redundancy is, as you say, molpish. So nothing wrong with redundant welcomes.

Eternal Density wrote:Just thought I'd share with you an amazing idea:The name of my next health-food themed metal band is Kalestorm.

Do they have songs such as "Nancy the Vegan Wench", "That Famous Organic Spiced", "Wenches and Green Smoothies"...?